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This will be very useful. Good find.

http://www.free-av.com/index.htm I'm also interested in this. I was going to make a vbscript to install it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

I really doesn't matter if you using Gosh's trick first or Jdebeock's batches. The only problem you should come across is that the batches will spit out a few errors when it tries to search dosnet.inf (since after gosh's trick it doesn't exist).

Yep.

I personally prefer Windows Messenger 4.7 over any other version of Messenger, but it seems to have a couple problems (most notably I have difficult sending/receiving files to and from some people) that force me to use MSN Messenger 6.1

iexplorer.exe and explorer.exe certainly are different. If you "remove" IE, you'll be rid of everything in the Program FIles\Internet Explorer directory. You can still launch explorer.exe and type a web address into its address bar to access web pages, including Windows Update. IE's security holes are still there and still need to be patched.

Whatever floats your boat. I know I'll be waiting for SP2 final before I do anything else with the i386 directory.

I haven't had any problems with removing IE. In fact, if you really, absolutely must use IE for something you can still open Windows Explorer or My Computer or anything that opens explorer.exe and type in a web address and it'll still work.

Wow. I think that solves my problem. Amazing. Thanks a lot.

I use mkisofs...

I've been having horrible luck for a long time with Installshield. When it works, it works great. When it doesn't work, I have an awful time figuring out the problem. Now it has come down to just a small handfull of problem programs to sort out before I can finally call my unattended disc (well, the apps part, anyway) complete. Basically, I can't get the Logitech mouse and keyboard software, Pinnacle Studio, and PowerDVD to install at all. I've tried various forms of the command line and recreated the iss files several times all to no avail. Here they are: PowerDVD start /wait %cdrom%\Apps\Multimedia\PDVD\Setup.exe -S -f1"%cdrom%\Apps\Multimedia\PDVD\setup.iss" Pinnacle Studio 8 start /wait %cdrom%\Apps\Multimedia\PinnacleDisc1\Setup\Setup.exe -S -f1"%cdrom%\Apps\Multimedia\PinnacleDisc1\Setup\setup.iss" start /wait %cdrom%\Apps\Multimedia\PinnacleDisc2\Setup.exe -S -f1"%cdrom%\Apps\Multimedia\PinnacleDisc2\setup.iss" Logitech Mouseware and iTouch software start /wait %cdrom%\Apps\Utilities\Logitech\itouch\it220enu.exe -a -S -f1"%cdrom%\Apps\Utilities\Logitech\itouch\setup.iss" start /wait %cdrom%\Apps\Utilities\Logitech\mouseware\mw9791enu.exe -a -S -f1"%cdrom%\Apps\Utilities\Logitech\mouseware\setup.iss" cdrom is assigned properly, so that rules out that possible issue. I'd post the iss files as well, but they'd make the post quite lengthy and I doubt they'll be of any help. Of course, if you want to look at them I can post them. Anything to help you help me.

It uses Installshield. I think it was actually the first installshield app I managed to actually get to install silently. Anyway, instructions are available on this site and probably numerous times in the forum.

If you import them during GUIMode Setup (via cmdlines.txt or a similar method) then the tweaks are applied to the default user account.

You need two copies of the cd ident files. One goes in the root of the cd, the other set goes in Pro1 (and pro2 and 3, too). Your last directory listing is good otherwise, though. The Docs directory could go whereever you wish I suppose, I just delete it.

I've found that it is impossible to use a directory other than i386 to put the install files in. You can boot from whatever you like--PRO2, XPBT, VOL1, whatever, but the actually setup files need to be in an i386 directory. I have my disc's directories setup in a manner similar to this: cdsh XPBT WinXP |--i386 |--$OEM$ Try something like that.

I'm looking into slipstreaming the OE and IE updates into my i386 directory as was done with the "type 1" hotfixes in Raverod's guide. He said he'd managed to do it and the javascript update, but I'm not certain which files are needed for the hotfixes. For example, I would assume Q824145_me.cat is used only in WinME but I'm not certain. Also, did anyone track down what was changing the javascript version back to an unpatched state? All of the files were the correct versions, but the version number in the registry remained the same.

I forget the wizard page its on, but there is an "Advanced" button that you can click. I forget the option you must check, but if I recall there's only one.

I'm finally starting to put the finishing touches on my disc which basically involves configuring everything as I'd like it. So, does anyone know where Open Office and Avant Browser save their settings? Also, does anyone know how to enable free-function only on isobuster by default (I hate having to click it on the registration popup)?

Alright, I've got a few program that don't like to silently install very well so I've made a couple VBscripts to at least automate the process. The problem is that the scripts won't start the setup programs because they can't find the file to run. The really strange thing is that if I run the script with Windows loaded they run fine, but when called from my inf file I get the file not found error. Here's an example script for Avant Browser: Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run app & "absetup.exe" WScript.Sleep 2500 WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 5000 WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}" WshShell.SendKeys "{ }" WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 1000 I could use an absolute path to the file but I'm trying to install all of my programs from the CD so the driver letter isn't always going to be the same. Is there a way pass a variable from an inf file to the vbscript?

You should be able to import the registry tweaks through cmdlines.txt (there are many thread about this), which results in the tweaks being applied to all users (as it is the Default User account being used at this point in setup)

If you'd read the thread, I asked this very same question on page one. This method doesn't skip textmode setup, it only removes some unneeded files from i386.

Alrighty then, that'll be my next project.

Has anyone figured out how to remove Media Player 8?

Sorry if this ends up being a repost as I just got an error when I tried to post and refreshing the thread didn't display a new message... Anyway, does anyone know a command I could use with bootcfg to add an entry to boot a logical drive? I'm using this guide to use the NT loader to boot Gentoo and I'm hoping I can avoid messing around with the MBR this way (which I'd have to do if I went with LILO or Grub).

Windows Update refuses to acknowledge that I've installed the update either using this method, normal unattended installs, or even via WU itself on my main computer. I assumed it was MS' fault.